By; SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri
The Wife of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Mrs Olaremi Tinubu on Saturday, took the North East Women APC Presidential Campaign rally to Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.
Fagging off the campaign rally which was held at the Elkanemi Sport Centre, Maiduguri, on.Saturday, the wife of APC presidential candidate, said that if voted, Senator Tinubu will accord serious attention to women and youth empowerment, as well as girl child education.
Mrs Tinubu said, “I will work together with Nana Shettima to address women empowerment, execute charity work, women empowerment and girl-child education in Nigeria. Because, if you educate a woman, you educate the whole society.”
While commending women of Borno and Northeast in general for coming out in mass to demonstrate their support for her husband in spite of the fact that it was a women’s day.
In his remarks, the Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum said, “I have no other alternative than to deliver the state to the Tinubu/Shettima presidential team and the entire APC. I will not let him (Kashin Shettima) down.”
He said while he was lecturing at the University of Maiduguri, the then Governor Kashim Shettima appointed him as rector of the Ramat Polytechnic, after which he appointed him commissioner in his cabinet, from where he also picked him to succeed him.
“We shall work assiduously to deliver more than 95 per cent of the state to APC. I therefore, urge the people of the North East, especially people of Borno to come out in mass and elect Tinubu/Shettima come 2023 general elections,” Zulum said.
Aldo, the wife of the vice presidential candidate, Hajiya Nana Kashim Shettima, said they have a fantastic blueprint that would address the plight of women and children, especially orphans, widows and vulnerable children.
Mrs Shettima called on women in the North East to come out in mass and vote for Tinubu/Shettima for president and to ensure that Senator Binani is elected as governor of Adamawa State.
She said, “as women, we should vote APC from top to bottom, so that all our candidates would be elected”.
In her goodwill message, the Deputy National Women Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Hajiya Zainab Ibrahim said Tinubu was the first governor to pick a woman as his deputy and from there, he set a precedent for other governors to emulate.
“If elected, Tinubu will raise women’s affirmative action in the country to over 35 per cent,” Zainab said.
The wife of the Presidential candidate was accompanied by the wife of the Vice Presidential candidate, Mrs Nansh Kashim Shettima, wives of the governors of Borno, Yobe, Kogi, Lagos, Kebbi, Gombe, Cross River, Plateau and Niger states.
Others include, the wife of the Speaker of House of Representatives, Mrs Gbajabiamila, the wives of former governors of Yobe and Niger states, Mrs Khadija Bukar Abba and Zainab Abubakar.
